1960 in literature

See also: 1959 in literature, other events of 1960, 1961 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• Lawrence Durrell publishes Clea, the final volume of the four-book collection titled The Alexandria Quartet that began in 1957.

New books

• Border Country – Raymond Williams
• Casanova's Chinese Restaurant – Anthony Powell
• The Chapman Report – Irving Wallace
• Clea – Lawrence Durrell
• Critique of Dialectical Reason – Jean-Paul Sartre
• Don't Tell Alfred – Nancy Mitford
• For Your Eyes Only – Ian Fleming
• Green Eggs and Ham  – Dr. Seuss
• Hunters in a Narrow Street – Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
• The Many Colored Coat – Morley Callaghan
• New Maps of Hell – Kingsley Amis (non-fiction)
• The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich – William L. Shirer
• Take a Girl Like You – Kingsley Amis
• To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee
• The Torch – Wilder Penfield
• Truth and Method – Hans-Georg Gadamer
• The Violent Bear It Away – Flannery O'Connor
• The White Stone – Carlo Coccioli
• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? – Henry Farrell

Births

• January 1 – Helen Fielding, author
• November 10 – Neil Gaiman, author

Deaths

• January 4 – Albert Camus
• January 12 – Nevil Shute, writer
• January 14 – Ralph Chubb, poet
• January 28 – Zora Neale Hurston
• November 28 – Richard Wright, author

Awards

• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Joseph Krumgold, Onion John
• Nobel Prize for literature: Saint-John Perse
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Jerome Weidman, George Abbott for book' Jerry Bock for music, and Sheldon Harnick for lyrics, Fiorello!
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Allen Drury – Advise and Consent
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: W. D. Snodgrass: Heart's Needle